After years of working in solitude within my panting studio, I find my work
has reached a critical juncture where it is essential to seek feedback from my
peers while the work undergoes a fundamental shift in direction.

Work responsibilities, change of location in the United States after a
recent retirement and multiple surgeries have hampered my progress in making a
new body of work to document life changing experiences. The left side of my
face was removed ten years ago due to cancer then replaced through a process of
many operations. The opportunity for a two week residency within the
artist community of ARTErra would give me focused time to create new work. It
would also offer a community of artists to share dialogue about emerging work
among the artist-in-residence.

I often paint on large stretched canvases with the medium of oil paint and
I am interested in multiple levels of subject interpretation. My proposal for
the ARTErra-Residency is to begin new works on paper using both acrylic paint
and graphite sticks. As this new work emerges, I ask how one’s identity is
formed through cultural standards of physical beauty and malformations. I plan
to explore layer upon layer of paint and graphite on smaller paper formats and
this will be an entirely new direction for me in my painting. I want to
work with acrylic paints; thinning, pouring, pushing, and possibly sanding
surfaces until they speak of both the consequences of change in physical beauty
and of consequences in malformation. The process of adding and subtracting on
paper will mirror life experiences.

I am very focused in my work and I feel that within a two week residency
with you, I will be able to produce a body of work totally new to my portfolio
both in technique and in subject matter.

This space for creativity and artistic training comes from a need for physical spaces where artists can meet and reflect on the creative processes, and develop them in an intensive and focused way.The ARTERRA is a private initiative. The artist finds in ARTERRA a house with a series of facilities,and a creation of a yard, where there are several spaces for the creation and development of an artistic work, and the possibility of introduction of the developed to the public.

In this space we will seek to provide artists and projects all the conditions for the development of the creative process.The ARTERRA has physical and technical conditions to be realized by several outbreaks of artwork, from design exhibitions, theatrical creation, studio and workshops, training...

For the creation in communion with nature is a reality, to foster a dynamic group strictly for work in residence in a rural environment.Diversify and decentralize the cultural offer.Develop training activities and contributing to the qualifications for the arts.

This space is intended for professionals from different artistic areas, groups or independent creators, Portuguese and aliens.You can also receive exceptional training projects for the general public and for children

- C.V. artist- Portfolio, videos, photos ...- Description of the project to be undertaken ARTERRA out, including the project's objectives, needs and expectations of residence and all the details necessary to understanding the proposal.- Dates and Duration of residence- Details (need for meals, work characteristics, number of persons, additional information relevant to the work process)